Feral Heart
Off topic => Discussion Board => Topic started by: Warriorstrike on August 21, 2017, 05:12:37 pm
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SPACE.
For those whom will be able to experience the solar eclipse today, are you excited? Will you be viewing it today? Will you watch outside or through a news outlet, if at all? Did you purchase glasses? Are you in the path of totality? Is the eclipse something you consider to be special or important-- why or why not?
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I have solar glasses to watch it, just got back in from looking. Looks like it's halfway there. Where I am we'll see totality, I plan on getting a pic of totality.
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I'm still waiting for it here actually. Don't have glasses or anything BUT maybe my phone pointing behind my head snapping pictures will work I dunno. I just hope it happens cause it got really dim here for a bit (not totally dusky like it should though) and lightened back up? And where I am it's supposed to get quite dark.
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Eclipse just passed, my sister got a pretty good pic of it.
(https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20953793_1575162772515177_8993714526732942701_n.jpg?oh=482201b33979c2c43ab4b92b533d0da7&oe=5A12A78D)
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I'm on the wrong side of the earth for it but...
You can wear welding mask, or make a pin hole camera to view it from a cardboard box, a sheet of waxed paper and a towel.
Or find a broken LCD screen and often those had the 2 layers of polarized plastic in them? at least the old ones did.
Take the 2 tinted sheets from the screen and hold them over one another and twist one sideways so it's now a "vertical A4 sheet of paper" in contrast to the other "Horizontal sheet of paper" way.. this should adjust the brightness. Happy viewing.
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Update: It was a ripoff here. It got a bit dim and trippy but that was it. Still neat but wish it would have been a bit more exciting. Oh well! xD
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Vespian got curious.
Vespian stared right into it directly.
No protection.
Worst .001 second of my life.
It hurt.
It still hurts.
Teivel's still laughing at me.
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All it did here was dim a bit to the point the shadows were visibly darker... I feel the same as Azura ^ xD
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Vespian got curious.
Vespian stared right into it directly.
No protection.
Worst .001 second of my life.
It hurt.
It still hurts.
Teivel's still laughing at me.
I did that too, by accident though. I thought it was still safe to look at but the moon moved enough to make the light not so safe. Thankfully the spot I got from looking at it is already gone, but it lasted a few painful minutes.
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(http://i.imgur.com/ky5MOIz.jpg)
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I'm visiting family in Missouri right now and we all went outside to see it, but it got too cloudy so I didn't get to see the sun that well. It was a bit disappointing.
I'm in the totality range so I got to see the world get dark like it was evening, but it only lasted a minute or so.
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I didn't purchase any glasses, and had to watch it on the news, but it was still cool ^^ I wasn't in the path of totality, but I have a friend who was and he sent me a couple of really neat pictures
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I wasn't in it's path but it seemed dimmer than usual around 2PM today, EST.
I spent the majority of the day watching it on the news and reading peoples aggressive comments about it on 4Chan. The usual.
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Sadly I was not in its path... it got dim in the early afternoon, that was all. Someone I follow on instagram got pictures of it though so I did get to see some of it. Even if the pictures weren't entirely clear I can tell it must have been a truly amazing thing to witness (well, not directly of course lol).
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I got to see around 98% totality, it was really wicked! I didn't purchase glasses (I ended up taking a few glances anyways) but we did make a projector and it was super neat to watch the progression of it.
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(http://68.media.tumblr.com/5237c24eff7037f73db1896c9b0ee3fd/tumblr_ov1tb15WRk1rsug4po1_1280.jpg)
damn clouds
I believe I was in the 75-90% totality range, which seems right based on my viewing. I bought a couple pairs of glasses off of amazon and headed to the local docs with my girlfriend and some school buddies. Luckily it was partly cloudy so I was able to briefly view it naked at a couple of points.
(https://68.media.tumblr.com/ef12e42876626c446721bd20464d239d/tumblr_ov3ftaE1mr1vj20fho1_540.jpg)
There were a lot of jellyfish at the docs for some reason, which was odd because I frequent the docs and have never seen even one there before. I read somewhere that the eclipse may distort their day/night behavior and they may have surfaced to feed? Sounds plausible. Forgive my ramblings, I'm a huge dork with this kind of stuff.